How has game theory contributed to our understanding of human co-operation and conflict?
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Humans come into conflict for many reasons. Conflict can arise due to disagreement, difference in opinion, methodology and values, ownership struggles, and the list goes on. During conflict, individuals or groups of individuals work against each other to achieve separately desirable goals. They...
The United States in the Economy
Course material - 25 pages - International economy
Globalization is a contest content, it can have a negative view; responsible of outsourcing, massive unemployment (Europe), positive view; eliminate discrimination, global general culture, universalism. A complex reality, positive & negative sides. Is a process of interaction and integration...
Idea of progress - How Americans relate to ecology nowadays?
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
We will talk about the notion of the idea of progress and illustrate it with the environmental issue in the USA. Progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change. It can be a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. Here, we...
Strategy proposal for an MNC who wants to invest or expand in a specific country - New Group Renault strategic plan: "Drive the Future"
Market study - 7 pages - International economy
In this work, we analyze Renault's strategic plan for 2017-2022, called "Drive the Future" on three levels: the company's source of competitive advantage (section 1), the reasons for choosing the target of investment in emerging country, such as China (section 2) and finally the content...
Are we observing the end of the diplomacy of the state?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
For Fiona McConnel and al. “Geopolitical events as diverse as the uprisings of the ‘Arab Spring', the secession of South Sudan, the formation of the European External Action Service and the WikiLeaks affair foreground the intellectual urgency of issues around international diplomacy...
The Dayton Peace agreement
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The Dayton Peace agreement, initiated in Dayton, Ohio in November 1995 and signed in Paris a month later, put an end to the worst conflict Europe had known since the Second World War. After three years of diplomatic shortcomings and blocked negotiations, US envoy Richard Hoolbrooke - the...
Operation Serval's strategic considerations and Clausewitz
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
In February 2011, Geoff D. Porter commented on the increased activity of al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), whose 'kidnap and ransom threat' made a growing instability factor in the Saharan region. Establishing multiple groups on the cross-border zone of northern Mali, northern...
Hong Kong's port - Geographical advantages and current difficulties
Essay - 2 pages - International economy
With the Hong Kong port slipping out of the world's top five, terminal operators should work together where possible, and focus on competing with ports in the Greater Bay Area and beyond'. Here what says Jonathan Beard, head of business advisory, transportation and logistics in Asia for...
How is globalisation today and how a firm should adapt to that?
Essay - 8 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
The 21st century saw unprecedented financial, economic, political and sanitary crisis. The environment of globalization was affected by these challenges. So, concerns about reversed globalization or de-globalization appeared. The following analysis demonstrates that Globalization is not...
Is sustainable development a contradiction in terms?
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Define in 1987 by the Brundtland's rapport, the Sustainable Development is the capacity to respond to the present needs without compromising future generations' needs. The Sustainable Development notion was really established since 1992 with the Rio Earth Summit involving a hundred...
The effects of fishing on marine ecosystems
Presentation - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
So, today, I would like to highlight the topic of fishing as linked to ecosystem preservation.
The consequences of climate change
Dissertation - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Climate change, and more generally all natural upheavals, is progressively accepted as a blatant reality by the vast majority of people, and to begin with, by those who are directly affected by them.
China and the future world
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
China is nowadays one of the most powerful countries in the world. In a short time, the emerging country has become a big nation. It is now a superpower that should handle the ascent and certain claims. How can China mix economics development, social and politics claims together?
What worries you the most concerning global warming ?
Dissertation - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
In September 2018, Nicolas Hulot resigned as Minister of Ecology, describing his time at the head of this ministry as an "accumulation of disappointment".
Margaret Thatcher - publié le 21/08/2020
Biography - 3 pages - Political science
Contrary to what one might believe thinking back about her time as a Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher did not come from a particularly wealthy or bourgeois milieu. She was born in 1925 in a Methodist family, who also owned a grocery store business.
Garbage patches
Presentation - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Garbage patches, also known as trash vortexes, are a major environmental issue to be solved soon. There sadly is not just one, but actually every ocean is affected, and for oceanographic reasons, the Atlantic and the Pacific even have two each, one in the North, the other in the South.
"We are Family"
Text commentary - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"We are Family" - Article analysis - February 2018 : The 1976 Adoption Act prohibited unmarried couples from jointly adopting a child. 25 years later, on May 16th 2002, the British government presented an amendment in order to lift the restriction on unmarried couples.
Global Macro economics
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
The increase of policy rates signals an end to an abnormally long period of low interest rates, and this could have repercussions on other countries as well. This is particularly the case in emerging economies that benefited from these low rates in order to attract foreign investment and issue debt.
How to change things when change is hard
Presentation - 35 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Exposé en anglais sur le sujet traité dans le livre "How to change things when change is hard "
Can luxury and more precisely jewelry be ethical ?
Case study - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
There is a lot of special occasions and sometimes flowers and happyness are not enough. Sadly, when a customer enters a jewellry he rarely thinks of where the jewelry comes from or its social and environmental cost.
Relationships between Serbia and the European Union
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Serbia also officially called the Republic of Serbia is a small sovereign state whose capital city is Belgrade. On June 5 of 2006, the Republic of Serbia was created after the independence of Montenegro which composed a federation (Serbia and Montenegro) since 2003 after the disruption of...
What democracy is and is not, de SCHMITTER et KARL
Book review - 5 pages - International relations
Fiche réalisée dans le cadre d'un exposé pour un cours de Democracy and Democratization of South and East Asia. Il s'agit d'une fiche de lecture de l'essai de Philippe C. SCHMITTER et Terry Lynn KARL "What democracy is and is not" disponible ici :...
Démocratie et Démocratisation en Asie du Sud et de l'Est
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - International relations
Devoir rendu dans le cadre d'un cours de Democracy and Democratization in South and East Asia, répondant au sujet suivant : To what extent and on what conditions might democracy be imposed (hence undemocratically) by a foreign power?
Politique étrangère du Japon
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - International relations
Devoir rendu dans le cadre d'un cours anglophone de Foreign Policy of Japan, discutant les relations entre le Japon et Singapour en termes de buts, de moyens (économiques, politiques, stratégiques) et des politiques menées (ex : JSEPA).
Spaces and Exchanges - The immigration
Presentation - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The immigration is the most obvious way to deal with the notion of Spaces and Exchanges: the idea of movement between countries that leads to exchange between the existing population and the new arrivals.We may wonder why we should change our attitudes towards immigrants. what extent are they...
Photo's Studies About Pollution - English oral
Presentation - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
This document is a photograph of a factory in Saint-Ouen, in the north of Paris. This photo comes from a report wrote by France 24. The photographer's name is Philippe Lopez. The photojournalist takes this photo on the 12th of December 2018 (two thousand eighteen). This photo deals with the...
African Conflicts in International Relations - China in Africa : Political or Economic interests ?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
China's involvement in Africa cannot be reduced to only one dimension. It would be an oversimplification to label the Chinese interests on the continent as either political or economic solely: these two aspects often constitute two faces of the same coin. China's increasing engagement in...
Impact of agroforestry and social forestry on wildlife: birds and smaller animals
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Most modern systems of raising animals separate animals from their natural environment. In these systems, many of the cycles of nature which are beneficial to both animals and their environment are broken. The use of animals can be a controversial topic. In many situations, especially in the...
Is the European neighborhood policy only a policy of exclusion which separates the EU from its close neighbors?
Essay - 5 pages - European union
Developed in the context of the enlargement of the European Union in 2004 at the Stockholm European Council in 2001, the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) as it is conceived today was designed to avoid the appearance of new dividing line in Europe. The main objective of the ENP is to improve the...
The Rohingyas crisis in Myanmar
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Myanmar is a country of Southeast Asia, bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand. A little over 1,2 million Rohingyas are currently living in Rakhine State, which was attached to Myanmar in 1784, in the north-western part of the country. They mainly live in the three towns of...
